On Sat, 2 Dec 1995, Julian Fong wrote:

	Well, if he thinks BGCrash is bad, I think it's interesting that he
liked BGCrusade that much, since many of Crusade's premises are a direct
outgrowth of Crash's.

	And so now the _premises_ of a show, or literary work, somehow 
dictates its quality?  I _liked_ the premises of Crisis .. and, to a 
lesser extent, Crash!  I like the premises of lots and lots of things.  
I've got a stack of Bruce Sterling cyberpunk-esque novels with neat 
premises that, IMHO, left a whole lot to be desired.  I like the premises 
of more than half of the fan works posted here.  That doesn't mean I have 
to like the works themselves... or does it?
	I thought that the latter half of Crisis strayed from its
premises, or at least the premises adhered to more-or-less in the first 
four episodes, and that Crash! was just poorly executed and planned.  The 
whole AI thing could have been handled with soooo much more class, and
innovation.  That's a whole separate story.
	I'm reaching a bit, but I'd bet that the author of Crusade was 
looking to take the basic ideas of the Crisis _and_ Crash! and do 
something _very_ different with them.  Crusade _certainly_ wasn't the 
fourth, fifth and sixth episode of Crash! ... nor could it have been.  
	I know that this attempt at innovation was, and is, my goal in
writing fan works in general, and _Machina_ specifically.  I've always
felt that one of the best things we, as fan authors, can do is take the
necessarily brief premises of the works we love, and explore all sorts of
new, potentially fascinating, aspects.  Priss, Sylia, Nene, Linna and the 
world of MegaTokyo are so very ripe for development -- thanks in some 
part to the faults of Crash and Crisis! 

	Maybe we should be grateful the OVA's weren't perfect?

CHL